For what it's worth, there was an article in a special "bird photography"
issue of Birding a few years ago in which the author claimed you can get
much-better-than-average-scope-quality pictures with the kowa tsn-1/3 (by
virtue of its fluorite objective). The pictures in the article looked
OK. The kowa photo adapter makes it 800mm, f11, as I recall (also a
1200, ?f16). Has anyone in tweeteria tried photography with a fluorite
kowa? How do the results compare with, say, a 3rd party 400mm + 3rd
party 2x teleconverter?

David Wright
dwright at u.washington.edu

> >Don has already covered the main problems with shooting through a spotting
> >scope but if you are not inclined to put a lot of money into a long photo
> >lens, it is possible. I just tried this myself and got a few keepers.